PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personality Development, Longitudinal Study, Extraversion And Introversion
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Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, & change. Personality development: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Each of these two facets stability & change requires definitions and qualifications. There are many forms of personality stability and many forms of personality change. The three important forms of stability are: rank order, order stability, mean-level stability. Rank order stability: the maintenance of individual position within a group. Between ages 14-20, most people become taller, but the rank order of heights tend to remain fairly stable b/c this form of development affects all people pretty much the same, adding a few inches to everyone. The same can apply to personality traits. If people tend to maintain their position on dominance or extraversion relative to others over time, then there is high rank order stability to those personality characteristics.
